[ And if anybody tries to say otherwise, I'm just gonna stare at you like you're a dumbass. ]
So this is my confession of sorts, I guess. Not that it's anything new for long-time watchers.
Over a year ago, now, it was close to my friend's birthday. I had no points, but wanted to get her a premium. So I opened commissions.
Now, as anybody who's known me from more than a few comment conversations has probably noticed, I am absolutely terrible with priorities. I overestimate my ability to churn out products, then proceed to sign myself up for even more activities requiring my time and effort after I've had the freakout about shit shit shit I can't finish this in time.
It's been over a year; there are commissions, half paid-for that I still haven't finished. [ I'm not too sure what to do about that. If I were to be completely honest, I think the commissioners have likely forgotten that they'd even commissioned me. ]
And isn't that another great excuse to not try to make up for putting all of that off.
[ I want to finish those eventually. And there's that eventually — because now that I look at things, there's so much that it's piled up around me and I don't know what the fuck to tackle first and activities that I started for fun seem more of a chore, but everywhere I look there's people attached and I don't want to have to apologize to more people for sorry, I was a moronic fuckass who can't handle more than a few tasks at a time and bit off way more than I could chew. If that actually happens, maybe add some sort of extra "bonus" drawing — sorry for taking one whole fucking year for everything. ]
Mind, I never charged a lot. Maybe a handful of cents in real money, nothing much over a few tens of points, but that's an obvious excuse because the problem isn't how much was paid but whether or not the entire transaction was fulfilled. [ What's this, bad attempts at PR/self-defense or something? Fuck me. ]
Oh, and let's not forget — there's also a Secret Santa from last year that I never finished. [ I want to, but I don't know if it'd be worse if I came to the recipient with it a year late or just acted as though I've forgotten it altogether. ] I think I've been avoiding that person for the entire last year out of something— guilt or fear of discovery, who knows.
I suppose I'm kinda asking for advice about how to handle the situation, or just apologizing in general. Or both. Yeah, both, in a way.